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...PLAY'S bawdiness and humor are over-emphasized in this production: the citizen Donado (William Fuller) could have fumed at his foolish nephew Bergetto without blustering like one of the magistrate-midgets who greet Judy Garland in the land of Oz. Geralyn Williams as Putana, Annabella's buxom attendant, is a parody, in every stagy sense of the term, of the ribald nurse. Maeve Kinkead as Hippolita-the sex-starved Wronged Woman of the piece-storms around like a steam engine out of control until releasing the last painful gasps of her already overstrained voice on a mobile platform which...
Radcliffe, now we rise to greet thee...
...White House was once a building as accessible as the Congress is now. Originally, it would be thrown open on a regular basis for the public to greet the President. But gradually, reinforced by the assassinations of Lincoln, Garfield, McKinley and Kennedy, it has become closed to the average citizen. Though none of the assassinations occurred at the White House, once the President was established as a target, it was natural to increasingly fortify the place where he spent most of his time. Today, the ordinary citizen's personal access to 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue is limited to a glimpse...
...concrete, was partially opened, but it was merely a means of getting from one side of the Thames to the other. However authentic the reconstruction in Arizona, the old bridge has vanished; monuments cannot be transplanted. London Bridge without London is, after all, not London Bridge. How does Cochise greet Charles Dickens...
...characters than those who fall into the snob-trap are apt to admit. I take Clavell's work on these two characters as a good sign for commercial moviemaking. And to hell with the characters in the Gary audience who laughed when Caine's Captain died. May they greet death as gracefully. The sooner, the better...